Leave it to Jeff Foxworthy to make “redneck” a buzzword, and not
\na red flag of the politically-tightassed ’90s. Instead of shunning
\nthe negative stereotypes that he and his fellow Southerners have
\nbeen burdened with by some people, he chose to revel in that
\nignorance and use humor as the best weapon.<\/p>\n
After several successful appearances on “The Tonight Show,”
\nFoxworthy seemed to burst forth into the mass media when his CD
\nYou Might Be A Redneck If…<\/i> was released in 1993. While the
\ndisc doesn’t break too much new ground regarding his material from
\naround that time, it’s still a funny disc to listen to, even after
\nyou’ve heard it 50 times.<\/p>\n
It would have been far too easy for Foxworthy to have used this
\nentire disc to spout his test on how to tell if you’re a redneck –
\nand it also would have gotten real old, real quick. Wisely, he
\ntouches on the subject briefly – and returns to it for the encore –
\nthen moves on to remind you he’s more than a one-joke act.<\/p>\n
Likewise, it would have been easy for Foxworthy to have relied
\non material poking good-natured fun at Southerners. (It’s like
\nGeorge Carlin said when he joked about the Irish, “It’s your gang;
\nyou can pick on your own gang.”) Instead, Foxworthy expands his
\nroutine to include humor about fatherhood (“Did you know that
\nbabies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?”), single life
\n(including a pretty accurate description of my first single-man
\napartment, though he left out the roaches) and marriage. In turn,
\nhe does what comedians like Jerry Clower and Lewis Grizzard were
\nnot totally able to do: gain mainstream acceptance and success.<\/p>\n
Problems? Well, there are a few. Foxworthy had a few of his
\nroutines released on a small comedy-club label, and if you
\npurchased any of these, you’ll notice some of the jokes on those
\ntapes appear on
\nYou Might Be A Redneck If…<\/i>. Granted, they all came from
\naround the same time span, and a comedian does need to hone their
\nact somewhere, so I’m not too bothered by that. Second, this disc
\nseems to be rather short – if you can call 45 minutes short. Bt
\nsomehow, I expected – or, maybe the better word is hoped – that
\nFoxworthy would have stretched out his routine longer. I guess you
\ndon’t want to wear out your welcome the first time around, but it’s
\nhard to keep track of time when you’re laughing so hard.<\/p>\n
While Foxworthy is tame in comparison to some comics, you still
\nmight want to keep this one out of the hands of the small kiddies.
\nStill, besides a minor curse here and there, this is a disc that
\nyou can listen to without worrying about being offended. And to the
\nuptight militants out there who take offense at every little thing
\nsomeone says that could offend, two words: chill out. Foxworthy, a
\nGeorgia native, knows it’s better to laugh with people at the joke,
\neven if it’s about your own heritage. He’s not offended; why should
\nyou be?<\/p>\n
\nYou Might Be A Redneck If…<\/i> is a nice major-label debut for
\na comic who was about to hit a brick wall in his career over the
\nmismanagement of his own television show by the networks. Until
\nthat was to happen, though, all there was to do was laugh – and
\nFoxworthy knows how to share that gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6201],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36388","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jeff-foxworthy","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36388"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36388"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}